Data Scientist

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Data Scientist

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We offer our team the opportunity to continuously develop themselves and to be part of a community of international colleagues working on the same goal every day: raising funds for charities who try to make the world a better place
Virginie, our Head of HR for the Postcoe Lottery Group

Virginie Kuijer

Director of HR, Postcode Lottery Group

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Take up a key role in our Data Science team where your work has direct and meaningful impact. Be at the core of our data-driven business, building predictive and innovative models shaping our marketing and customer strategy, and driving our growth. And every day at work, you'll be doing your part for all the charities we support.

At Postcode Lottery Group, your data science work directly supports hundreds of charities across environmental, health, and community causes. Every model you build helps raise funds for a fairer, greener world. You'll join a collaborative, impact-driven team that values technical excellence and practical results. We design and deploy advanced machine learning models that make a real difference for our business and charity partners. This is an end-to-end role: from stakeholder conversations to production deployment, you’ll shape solutions that matter. You’ll also help guide the business, explore new opportunities, and demonstrate the power of data.

Ali Palali, Senior Data Scientist: "At the Postcode Lottery Group, we use data science for good. As the Data Scientist team, we build and deploy robust ML models that have a real-world impact, driving business decisions that help us fund a greener, better, and a fairer world. This is a role where you will have plenty of room for innovation, growth, and a clear purpose."

What you’ll do:

  • You'll apply your skills in predictive modeling and advanced statistical techniques (like regression and classification techniques, forecasting, A/B testing and causal inference), to deeply understand and predict customer behavior, helping us make smarter decisions about retention and value.
  • We mean it. You will take ownership of your models from end-to-end: from data exploration in Snowflake and feature engineering to deploying your models on AWS SageMaker.
  • Be responsible for making sure your work is automated, tested, and reliable. You will work closely with GitLab.
  • You’ll be the one translating fuzzy business questions into concrete data science problems and, just as importantly, translating your complex results back into clear, actionable insights for your stakeholders.
  • You’ll work closely with our Machine Learning Engineering and Platform team to continuously improve our shared tools, ML platform and best practices.

This is how you describe yourself

You’d describe yourself as follows:

  • At least 4-6 years of experience as a Data Scientist, with a proven track record of taking models from an idea to a live, production system.
  • You have a strong, practical foundation in statistical and machine learning techniques, especially for predictive modeling, regression and classification techniques, and understanding causal impact and A/B testing.
  • You’re fluent in Python (Pandas, Scikit-learn, Statsmodels etc.) and write strong, clean SQL (we use Snowflake).
  • You believe in MLOps and building things that last. You're comfortable with concepts like containerizing models with Docker and CI/CD, and have hands-on experience with GitLab/AWS SageMaker.
  • You're more than just a modeler—you're a great communicator and a true team player who enjoy collaborating and can guide stakeholders, manage expectations, and make the complex simple.
  • A monthly salary indication between €4.700,- and €6.100,- based on a 40-hour week and flexible working hours.

Join us! We believe an inclusive organisation is the ideal breeding ground for creativity, collaboration and innovation. Employee solidarity is important to us, too. Each of us has a part to play in that – we are the organisation, after all. We strive to make everyone feel at home. That means keeping an open mind and paying attention to each other’s welfare.

Can you see yourself as part of the team? We encourage you to apply – whatever your roots, religion, age, ability to work or life philosophy.

Please send your CV and cover letter (mandatory) to our Recruitment Business Partner Paulo Pablo through the link above.

Acquisition is not appreciated.

Want to learn more about this job? Get in touch with us today.

Do you have any questions about this job, or about the Postcode Lotteries in general? Feel free to contact me.

Paulo Cerqueira Pablo

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Some of our perks

A good salary

A competitive salary, a variable year-end bonus, an excellent pension scheme, above-average days of holiday per year, and flexible working hours (dependent on your working location).

Development

The opportunity to develop your career. All team members have the option of applying for funding for a chosen training topic of their choice. And there are plenty of opportunities to grow within the organisation.

Events and activities

We like to celebrate our successes with our colleagues and charity partners at well attended drinks, parties and activities.

Some of our perks

Meet the team

The Postcode Lottery Group is building an International Analytics hub to provide our lotteries with the right models, tools, tech, and best-practices to help realize our growth ambition. In this hub you will be working together with business representatives to identify value adding business cases for advanced statistical analytics. You will be working on exciting and challenging BI, data & AI projects that create real impact for the lotteries and our beneficiary organizations.

About the Postcode Lottery Group

Balance marketing, tech and impact

A marketing-driven charity organisation

The Postcode Lottery Group is a marketing-driven international non-profit organisation. We operate lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener and healthier world. Our players win with their neighbours and generate money for charities together – it’s a win-win!
Together we work towards a better world

Our purpose: a better world, for everyone

Since our start in 1989, we have raised over €14.5 billion for thousands of charities. Together with our players and 1,500 fellow team members in the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany and Norway, you'll be helping to create a better world every day.
Inclusions drives high performance at the Postcode Lottery

Inclusion and equal opportunities

People are at the heart of what we do. Whether it’s our team, our players, or the thousands of good causes supported, our aim is to play our part in creating a fairer, more equal world. We are open to ideas and are committed to creating a culture that is inclusive, representative and celebrates diversity in everyone. But we are not perfect. We will always strive to do better – that’s just who we are.